What has been happening to house prices in 2015?

Check out the latest information on the major drivers of UK house prices in 2015. Plus an infographic showing what would have happened to food prices since 1960 on a similar level of price rises.;

Predictions are great fun so we wanted to know how the experts got on with predicting what would happen to house prices in 2015.

There are many elements which are affecting house prices currently. We have picked some of the most influential and interesting below.

The BBC used an expert property panel in 2014 to canvass opionion on what we could expect in 2015. Overall the predicitions put the estimated price growth at 4%. You can read the full predictions on the BBC:

Actual house price growth in 2015

The Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index has year-to-date growth at 6%. In the report you can see that only Aberdeen has experienced negative changes, most likely as a result of the downturn in the oil industry.

London, Cambridge and Oxford are the biggest contributors to the 6% rise. The biggest talking point of the report is the rise of the average London price differential to a 20-year high:

The NHBC figures show that semi and fully detached new homes are on the increase, whilst new flat builds have slowed in pace.

2015 sees a change in property buyer types

The Guardian picks up on the Hometrack report, highlighting that the number of prospective buyers in 2015 who had a property to sell has fallen dramatically, helping in turn to increase prices as available housing stock decreases.